Beth Topping

XPRIZE is offering $1 million to designers of a protective face mask that people will actually want to wear.

Music venues in LA are closed due to the pandemic, so artists have taken their performances to the internet and other creative places.

Statues of slave traders and Confederate leaders are being toppled or defaced during protests following the killing of George Floyd.

Americans are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness . A coliving project in Hollywood was designed to remedy it. Then came a pandemic.

Child care facilities were deemed essential in the early days of the pandemic. Yet many of them closed as parents pulled children out when stay-at-home orders came.

Before COVID-19, street vendor Heleo Leyva ran Quesadillas Tepexco, an East Hollywood food stand. But as the virus began to spread, he was forced to shut down.

Geoffrey von Oeyen completed a dream house for his brother, only to see it destroyed by the Woolsey Fire two years ago.

Drive-in to see classic movie Metropolis. Reflect on simpler times with Mary Little's textile sculptures. Take a curated tour of LA Forum's exploration of the 2020s.

Shrines celebrate Black individuality, newspaper clippings highlight the complexity of the Black experience, and eerie lullabies stir memory and loneliness.